Sentences with phrase «of academic jargon»

Not only has Emily Braun, who supervised this exhibition, unearthed a wealth of information, but she has also written a substantial essay, «The Trauma of Painting,» that is wonderfully absent of academic jargon and hyperbole, making it a pleasure to read.

This by now hoary bit of academic jargon marks Institutions of Modernism as the offspring of «cultural studies,» that popular pseudo-discipline that resulted from crossing Marxist animus with deconstructionist verbiage.

Not exact matches

Yet it is the better guide not primarily because artists are wiser or better informed than the professional academic» when they are silly or misguided, which is often, their rhetoric - fueled errors are even more stupendous than those of the jargon - intoxicated, tenured mediocrity.

But that's not how Ellis was understood by most, and there is a direct line to be drawn between the Ellis article and the self - conscious if tacit defensiveness of the Land O» Lakes statement, which seemed to say, yes, we're second - rate, maybe even third - rate, and the way to be first - rate is to be like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the rest of what would be called, in twenty - first - century Catholic academic jargon, «aspirational peers.»

Though he does frequently refer to Hebrew words, his language is not academic or full of theological jargon.

Academic psychologists, armed with a veneer of scientific jargon, wanted in on the action.

Sure, there are a handful of academics and scientists who could EASILY give you this exact answer, but none of them are willing to take time out from their busy schedules to actually sit down and write a book just for you — much less one that wasn't full of confusing scientific jargon and annoying fence - sitting.

«Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — produce gains of about 0.1 or 0.2 or 0.3 standard deviations.

It's rare that academic expectations get as much attention as they have here in Indiana — but for the average parent or interested outsider, it's hard to have an opinion on a debate that's so full of jargon and nuance.

The standards were so concise, so jargon - free, so clear that the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., had Catholic schools in the nation's capitol teaching Indiana Academic Standards.

They were the product of a 1999 directive from Indiana's legislature for the state to adopt a set of clear, concise, jargon - free academic standards.

I am very interested in academic epublications, and I find your article most interesting, but, unfortunately, a rather difficult read: lots of jargon, abbreviations, and so on the meanings of which are not immediately clear to this relative newcomer to the field.

Wordiness, needless words, and use of jargon are the main reasons of redundancy in academic writing.

He is particularly keen on public scholarship that brings academic insights to the wider public without unnecessary jargon or impenetrable theories.Some of the topics he has addressed includes wolf recovery, outdoor cats and biodiversity, barred and northern spotted owls, the Canadian seal hunt, cosmopolitanism, the Earth Charter, precaution, rewilding, sustainability science, and urban ecology.

So instead of using jargon, let me give you a simple dress - code example to help you to understand «postmodernist art» and how it differs from «modern art» and its even earlier predecessor «academic art».

Maybe it's a legitimate word for contrived results — I'm far out of touch with academic jargon (grin).

L. Rev. 887, 924 — 25 (2002)(discussing the need for consistent legal - writing terminology, or «jargon,» to effectively communicate about writing and about the substance of the academic discipline of legal writing).

Not surprisingly, most people don't have the time to read scientific journals (this is even true of many academics), don't have the background to wade through all the technical jargon, or don't have access to the actual articles.